Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Election Day Yields

What does the fixed income market look like after a horrible superstorm and on the an election day which may or may not be decided quickly? Since the announcement of QE Unlimited, mortgage-backed securities prices have come down quite a bit as has their commercial MBS cousin. In fact, MBSes have been pulling back pretty much all day. Emerging market debt has pulled pulled back. The following table shows the 1 week max drawdown, max drawdown as a % of principal, and standard deviation of prices for several fixed income ETFs. I bond (savings bond) rates have been reset to a mere 1.76% due to persistently low CPI numbers.

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